Word: wrongs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wordsmiths nor comedians have the power of the people. Some of the favorite phrases of 1977 will make it to the lexicons; most will wither before the new year ends. Pessimists have a point when they refer to the new excrescences of television ego-talk. But optimists are not wrong when they find clearer days on Capitol Hill and a tonic absence of Viet Nam euphemisms and campus-v.-cops rhetoric. "Things are improving," says TV Pundit Edwin Newman (A Civil Tongue): "Schools are finally doing what they ought to do, teaching the basic English that we have neglected...
...missing their human audiences. Curator Tom Otten reports that they have become short-tempered, stare balefully at strangers and deliberately make mistakes when doing tricks with their trainers. Says he: "It's like a kid who slams the door, knowing that his mother will ask what's wrong and show him some sympathy." This watery form of anthropomania doubtless is an acquired trait, since in their natural habitat none of the mammals are aware of humans. Indeed, Trainer Tim Desmond suspects that his charges have come to love the roar of the crowds too much. With the park...
...judge appealed to the Illinois Supreme Court, which, after pondering his case for a year, has ruled unanimously that he did no wrong. But Harrod's victory may be hollow. Fearful of stirring up more trouble, the judge has not decided whether to resume sentencing shaggy-haired miscreants to terms in the barber's chair, even though he remains convinced that in many cases, prison cells or fines are too harsh a punishment. Says he: "I'm going to wait and see. I've been burned by this...
...obstinacy of Israel will not make any solution possible. Sadat's strategy will naturally lead to disaster. It is the strategy of a desperate man. His strategy after the 1973 war led to concessions, such as Sinai II. Now he is making more concessions. And he is 100% wrong. I don't believe Sadat can last. His days are numbered. Outside Egypt, he is finished as an Arab leader...
Where will it all end? Bear markets eventually give way to bull markets, and some computer-equipped analysts now think that the Dow could lumber up to 950 or even 1050 by late 1978 or early 1979. Maybe -but that sounds all too reminiscent of the wrong predictions being made a year ago, when Wall Street's mood was one of relative cheer...